Anne Rimoin, PhD, MPH, is a professor of epidemiology and Gordon-Levin endowed chair in infectious diseases and public health at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is the director of the Center for Global and Immigrant Health and the director / founder of the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program and is a globally recognized expert on emerging infections, global health, disease surveillance systems, and vaccination.

Anne has been working in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 2002, where she founded the UCLA-DRC Health Research and Training program to train US and Congolese epidemiologists to conduct high-impact infectious disease research in low-resource, logistically complex settings. 

Anne has dedicated her career to understanding the emergence of infectious diseases and developing surveillance systems to detect early outbreaks and prevent pandemics – often compared with finding a needle in a haystack. Her pioneering research includes identifying novel pathogens in humans and conducting epidemiologic studies of emerging pathogens and vaccine-preventable diseases. Her work has significantly advanced the fundamental understanding of human mpox (formerly monkeypox) epidemiology, long-term immunity to ebola virus in survivors, and durability of the immune response to ebola-virus vaccine in health workers. Her current research portfolio includes studies of COVID-19, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, ebola, Marburg, mpox, Nipah virus, and vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood.